To be quite honest, I kinda hope for a later release. September would be good. Because I will have 0 to -10 time until then. My second son will be born around end of may so there will be some month without enough sleep AND I am desperately trying to finish my master thesis. The original plan was to finish the thesis before the baby comes but I doesn't look like this will happen.
So I kinda hope Xen comes out when everything settles down a bit. Kinda of a crazy but great year, though: My first niece got born in January, then another niece just a few days back, my second son in may or June, I will finish my master studies after god knows how many semesters AND xen will come out! Geez I feel like the year is a couple of month to short for all that.
And here I was, imagining myself how I would cherish the release of Xen. I pictured myself comeing home from work knowing it's the big day. I would start steam, download the update. Fix myself a fine meal, open up a cold bottle of beer and sit down and play BM from start to the very finish....*sigh* not gonna happen so soon. For me at least, hehe.

Come now, guys. The longer they spend making it, the better it'll be on release. The last thing we need is a game-breaking bug caused by a rushed update that results in a day-one patch.
Where other people hear "delayed release", I try to hear "we found stuff that we need to fix so that you guys don't have to deal with it".

Did any of us say that we need it as soon as possible?
Don't think so!

The devs just said quite a few months ago that there's a scheduled Summer 2017 release, and some of us asked if that is still the case 4 months later. Out of curiosity mainly. I don't quite care if they delay it 2-3 months. I'm just hungry for more info on this great game.
If they happen to delay it more than 2-3 months, i'd like them to add another update with a few of the achievements that are ready for the part that we have now (Or Multiplayer).

Eh, I'd definitely rather it be released in summer than "2-3 months later" if possible since my own time will become more limited after that. Again, it's still their schedule though, and they're free to work with it how they choose. I won't criticize.